Just a quick reminder to our Destination z member schools and their students that the applications for our Enterprise Computing Scholarships are due tomorrow.
Good luck to all participants. Link to application: Click Here! Yours in z, Marc

This blog entry is about how to surface the full CICS Explorer experience inside RD/z 8.0.3. You can do this by adding the line -Dcom.ibm.cics.explorer.sm.ui.full.enable=true to the eclipse.ini file used to launch RD/z, making sure it's after the -vmargs...

Just a reminder that applications will be accepted until November 30. Students who attend classes at IBM Destination z member schools are eligible to compete for this scholarship program.
For more info, visit this site: IBM Destination z Enterprise...

IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer was made generally available last week. It's very cool, and there is a neat neat video that show the IMS team talking out quite how cool it is. There's another video that is more a tutorial. Together it's all so cool you'd be...

Just a heads up to students who attend an IBM Destination z member school, the IBM Destination z Enterprise Computing Scholarship is now open for applications. Check out the the IBM Destination z website for details, and good luck!
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If your coming to the IBM System z Technical University in Miami, Oct. 3 -7, make sure you stop by the zZone to meet the numerous IBM Destination z partner members. Their mission is to help you maximize your mainframe platform so you can sleep at night! ...

Check out this article that describes why a current student at NC A&T University is heading for a career around the Mainframe.
http://destinationz.org/Community/Evangelizing-Mainframe/August/Anything-but-Conventional,-Student-Pursues-Mainfra.aspx ...

Wow, I just saw this article which comments on the role System z played in IBMs 2Q results . A reinforcement of what our Destination z community has known all along... now... more people will know! http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/death-of-the-m...

At the IBM Impact 2011 conference in Las Vegas and at the IBM System z Symposium in Orlando we placed some of our IBM Destination z Business Partners in front of the camera to share their thoughts about Destination z and the benefits of membership.. Check it...

For all you Destination z followers, The newest edition to the zEnterprise family has been announced. Check out the details at this website ! Want to learn more, IBM will show off the new machine at the upcoming SHARE conference in Orlando. Come partake in...

Our Destination z community has a new home on the web! www.destinationz.org Come check it out, join the community, and enjoy the resources and connections to others who share your interest in the IBM System z (Mainframe) platform. The new dzInsider digital...

It has been too long since my last post and for that my apologies. I did want to take time out however to update you on the latest Destination z happenings! First off, I want to welcome the following new Business Partner members to the community! Can Do...

I joined IBM on June 26 1989, so this Sunday brings up my 22 year anniversary with the company. No small achievement, but I am still three years away from the mystical IBM Quarter Century Club . Of course for some: 22 years is nothing! I recently...

In the latest release of the CICS Explorer - version 1.1 - lots of new function has been put in to support CICS Transaction Server 4.2. I'll blog about this later as there's a ton of super cool stuff, but this blog is about the System z stuff. The response...

Hello Destination z followers, It has been some time since my last entry and allot has happened since. Let me start off in welcoming two new Business Partner members to our community, specifically a warm welcome to NewEra Software, Inc . and Semantic Designs...

The CICS Explorer is two years old – at IBM we first released it in support pac form on November 5 th 2008 – and between now and then we’ve done a bunch of cool stuff with it. This blog is about a new perspective called System z.OS that we added to the 1.0.1...

Greetings from Boston where I am at the 2010 IBM System z Technical University. Yesterday was a great day with over 800 attendees at the conference. The exhibit hall was very busy last night with attendees flooding in to see IBM's new zEnterprise and all...

I was listening to a popular weekly technology podcast (hint hint) when they mentioned how Intel has made a chip for a Gateway PC which, when you need to, you can upgrade in place with a $50 upgrade card. According to PC Magazine ( here ), the card is used to...

I would like to extend a warm welcome to an exciting new member of our IBM Destination z community, Pirean Limited. Pirean is based in the United Kingdom and has recently expanded their business in System z with focus on Security and Service Management. ...

Just time before Montpellier to tell you there is some new System z related content at http://www.pirean.com/Systemz.htm including now four PDFs for download. These are Pirean's Extended System z Adapter for ITIM (PEZA) datasheet . 5 Steps to Mature System...

This is a short extract from the first draft of an article I'm writing for z/Journal about maturing the mainframe security function. This section deals with a necessary cultural shift in the control of mainframe data. "Organisations carry lots of...

I'm attending this next month:- System z Security Event for Today and Tomorrow... Note the dates have changed but the website still shows the old dates (in a GIF which is messy to edit, there's a lesson there for all webmasters!) New dates are Tue 28th Sep...